Green Living for Awesome People

Buy Nothing New

There are a multitude of reasons why you might abstain from buying new stuff, and opt for secondhand instead. For financial reasons. To live simpler. For environmental reasons. Buying secondhand has the double benefit of reducing the amount of materials entering the waste stream, and reducing the volume of resources being transformed into stuff. What’sRead more

I did my original 200 days challenge shortly after my father passed away last year. I was motivated by the experience of cleaning out my father’s old apartment, where the volume of stuff we had to dispose of shocked and disturbed me. I wanted to fight against the environmental destruction brought upon by hyper-consumption, andRead more

UPDATE: I’m doing another 200 days of nothing new challenge, starting October 1st, 2015. Join me and the hundreds of others who have signed up! Buy Nothing New Challenge Facebook group [mailmunch-form id=”121726″] A few days ago, I sent my story on how I decided to buy nothing new for 200 days to aRead more

You open your wardrobe. It’s bursting with clothes. Too many clothes – but nothing to wear. No matter how familiar this cliche might be, it is so true. What happens next? Shopping for new clothes, and throwing away the rest. This cycle costs average American over $1700 a year. The average Canadian household spends overRead more